Sultan Agung and the Mataram Empire

Sultan Agung of Mataram united nearly all of Java under one sceptre, reformed the calendar, and twice marched his armies the length of the island to besiege Dutch Batavia — the only Indonesian ruler who ever came close to expelling the Europeans. Soldier, mystic, and state-builder, he remains the measure of Javanese kingship. This book tells his story: the conquests, the sieges, the court culture, and the empire that slowly unravelled after his death in 1645.